Taekwondo demonstration of the GCS Global Taekwondo Peace Corps Korea

Gwangju, KOREA (September 21, 2019) - The 2019 GCS International

Convention took place on September 21, 2019 at Chosun University in

Gwangju, Korea.

The Gwangju 2019 GCS International Convention, which celebrates the 40th

anniversary of the founding of the GCS International and the 38th U.N.

International Day of Peace, drew about 1,500 people from about 20 countries.

Founded in 1979, GCS International is a Seoul-based U.N.-affiliated

non-governmental organization (NGO) headed by Dr. Chungwon Choue, who

also serves as president of World Taekwondo. With three major spirits of

goodwill, cooperation and service, it strives to achieve the three by promoting

healthy society, better living, preservation of the nature, restoration of human

dignity and promotion of world peace. With a global membership of 44 national

chapters, GCS International was founded by the late Dr. Young Seek Choue,

who proposed the International Day of Peace and the International Year of

Peace to the United Nations in 1981 and was unanimously approved by the

U.N. General Assembly that year. In 2016, GCS International signed a

memorandum of understanding with World Taekwondo, the Taekwondo

Humanitarian Foundation to help empower the powerless in developing

countries.

WT President Chungwon Choue; Dr. Hong Sung-Geum, acting president of

Chosun University; Dr. Lu Dezhi, vice chairman of the China Charity Alliance;

WT Secretary General Hoss Rafaty; Mr. Kim In-Seon, a WT Council member;

Mr. Gary Hall, high performance director of GB Taekwondo attended the event.

At the 2019 GCS International Peace Seminar, GCS International President

Choue made a keynote speech, followed by presentations by Prof. Luc Reychler

of Leuven University in Belgium. After that, there was a ceremony to

inaugurate the GCS Global Peace Corps, followed by a 15-minute joint

taekwondo demonstration by about 1,000 members of the GCS Global

Taekwondo Peace Corps Korea.

In the afternoon, the 2019 GCS Peace Concert took place at the Haeoreum

Center in which a 37-member Korea Saxophone Harmony played famous

classic and pop songs, followed by a 20-minute classic song performance by

Soprano Kim Jee-Hyun and Tenor Lee Jeong-Won. The concert was followed

by a 30-minute taekwondo musical by members of the Chosun University

Taekwondo Demonstration Team.

"The 2019 GCS International Convention has a special meaning in that it marks

the 40th anniversary of the founding of GCS International and September 21 is

the 38th U.N. International Day of Peace. ‘Peace is More Precious than

Triumph’ is the book title of the late Dr. Young Seek Choue, the founder of the

GCS Movement, and the words send a precious lesson to all mankind. In this

regard, the inauguration of the GCS Global Peace Corps on the occasion of the

2019 GCS International Convention is very meaningful and it brightens the

future of the GCS Movement," said Dr. Choue.

He continued to say, "I wish not only taekwondo, but also all sports to join the

GCS Global Peace Corps, which would ultimately help promote world peace."

"The year 2019 will be a turning point for the 40-year GCS Movement and we

all have to join hands to chart another 40-year GCS Movement. In 2021, we

will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the GCS founder and the 40th

anniversary of the U.N. International Day of Peace. I ask for your continued

service and dedication to the promotion of the GCS Movement around the

world."

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